Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

I strive for improvement. want to be a master of my craft.

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

We strive for greatness.

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

I'm by no means the person that I strive to be. I don't think anyone is the person that we strive to be. But I try.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.